Mobile

San Francisco is learning first-hand about the risks of blanket bans on facial recognition. City supervisors have voted to amend a ban on facial recognition in local government to allow the use of FaceID-equipped iPhones and other devices where the technology is included, but other features are considered vital and don’t have alternatives. Workers aren’t allowed to use the facial…

Last week’s poll shows that Samsung has a potential hit on its hands – the Galaxy A71 received strong support. However, its retail price is yet to be announced, so we’ll see how that goes. Its sibling, the Galaxy A51, didn’t fare as well, only getting 40% positive vote, which was nearly even with the “the A71 is better” option at 35%. We do know the price of this one, $350/€310, which is…

Twitter’s posted a statement on its Privacy blog, notifying of the discovery of a security vulnerability in its Android app. It offered the possibility to allow a bad actor control over your profile (including sending tweets and DMs) and access to otherwise non-public information if they were to insert malicious code into restricted storage areas of the Twitter app. Twitter says it has no…

The Honor MagicWatch 2, unveiled late last month, is now available for purchase in the UK. The smartwatch is priced at £160 ($210/€190) and you can buy one from Amazon UK or eBay. It’s the 46mm variant that’s been listed, while the 42mm version will arrive in early 2020, but we don’t know exactly when. The MagicWatch 2 is powered by the Kirin A1 SoC – the same chipset…